The arts, together with the creative design fields, encourage risk and creativity; they teach collaboration and compassion; they join the conceptual with the pragmatic; they bring international cultures into bracing dialogue. For these reasons alone, they already play a critical role in higher education—and must continue to do so.

Together, The Arts + Design Initiative with the Arts Research Center will feature, fortify, and mobilize existing excellence in the arts and design at UC Berkeley, while fostering new forms of dynamic collaboration, innovation, and public access across all arts and design fields, on our campus and in public life.

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Mission

The Arts Research Center at University of California, Berkeley is a think tank for the arts, a genuinely interdisciplinary space that brings people together--from across the university and beyond the university, from across the arts and beyond the arts--for unexpected conversations, collaborations, and community-building.